Free Music
I quite liked Zavvi; I saw Alphabeat and Vampire Weekend there for free in their excellent little venue underneath Manchester's Arndale branch. But even though Zavvi is where I bought my Wii, this year I spent ten times more at Amazon than Zavvi. It's a shame Australia's JB Hi-Fi don't seem to be interested in a UK expansion; their format would be great for both Zavvi and Woolworths (UK) stores. I await the Zavvi sale, even if all they have left is complete Friends boxsets.
Anyway. Official point of this post is to highlight free legit music over Christmas:
On Dec25 and Dec26, Amazon offer £3 off MP3 downloads (so you can get about 5 tracks of your own choosing for free) - enter code FREEMP3S at the checkout.
And from Dec26, the Guardian offer a different iTunes download each day starting with some sort of Ting Tings thing at http://www.guardian.co.uk/itunes (link won't work yet).
So with that done, and everything wrapped, I'm off to bed. Merry Christmas.
ETA: Oh, and I appear to have recovered from the lurgy but I don't want to actually say that in case I awake and it's returned. Thanks for all well wishes.
Anyway. Official point of this post is to highlight free legit music over Christmas:
On Dec25 and Dec26, Amazon offer £3 off MP3 downloads (so you can get about 5 tracks of your own choosing for free) - enter code FREEMP3S at the checkout.
And from Dec26, the Guardian offer a different iTunes download each day starting with some sort of Ting Tings thing at http://www.guardian.co.uk/itunes (link won't work yet).
So with that done, and everything wrapped, I'm off to bed. Merry Christmas.
ETA: Oh, and I appear to have recovered from the lurgy but I don't want to actually say that in case I awake and it's returned. Thanks for all well wishes.